Last year when Labour considered changes that would make closing libraries easier Ed Vaizey – then shadow culture minister and now the man in charge – made an impassioned defence of libraries. “This puts the future of every public library under threat. This is outrageous and offensive to everyone who ever cared about books and reading,” he roared.
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Soon there will only be one word. It will have the signifier’Tories’ and the signified: Bastard.